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Monday, August 18, 2008

Acapulco

Yes, updates are slow.. blog is dying! But that is mainly because i have been busy with school. This form of busyness was alien to me in NTU. Anyhow, i won't get into the monotone school life, instead i will tell you all about me getaway weekend to Acapulco. Well this trip started off like a James bond action movie! We went to the gas station to top up some fuel for our Five hour drive to the beach town. While at the station.. everything seem to go smoothly.. Lopez telling the lady how much to top up, daniel guzzling down a bottle of cocacola, me digging into my bag of MnMs. Lopez paid for the petrol by credit card, got the reciept and started to drive off! Suddenly we heard something snap behind us, and there was a huge fountain of petrol squrting from a broken pipe , for a momenet we all were confused! then we realised that the LADY had left the hose in the tank!!! and so we drove off with it.. SNAPPING the tube! the guy ran after us and told us to back into the petrol station.. So we did.. like nice people. and waited for 10 seconds.. and then lopez said something to Daniel.. and dan started laughing! and the LOPEZ JUST SPED off!! lol.. yup! we RAN AWAY!

Later lopez explained why he did that.. basically even though it wasn't our fault, this whole thing was gonna take forever, with the police etcetc! and he didn't want to ruin the trip! :P So quite a start! after a long wait for some other people.. all eight of us were on our way!! we arrived late, at about 2am.. We all were putting up at lopez's condo, which was pretty huge and awesome, i shall upload the pics on facebook.. and we had a standerd Mexican party, by the pool. In which i attempted to learn swimming.. we all were up till about 6am.. then crashed! Next day at 10am.. we went for a great breakfast! and the Mexican bunch had decided that they would call me 'Jesus' apparently it sounds like sachin.. after a complex Mexican style thinking is applied! don't ask.. SO anyway.. after that.. we went to the beach.. spent a day getting sun BURNT.. got back to the house in the evening! then.. again i was in the po0ol.. and i decided to practice some diving, after some failed attempts, i tried to dive from the edge of the pool.. I FINALLY GOT THE DIVE RIGHT! but.. i went right to the bottom of the pool.. and hit my face on the floor.. and chipped my front tooth!.. ouch.. yes! but more than the pain from the impact! it was my Halloween look that did the damage! at first i refused to go out.. for obvious reasons! But then after much coxing from Daniel.. i decided i shouldn't give up, and try to still enjoy the night, so i stuck a chewing gum in between my teeth (that was to act as my cover) and headed of to what is apparently the Second biggest club in the world! It was great.. drank some really strange cocktails with names like.. "ABORTION".. i swear it did look like there was a fetus floating in the shot. it was pretty sick looking, but tasty. Then we decided to head to to go somewhere else. Outside the club there seemed to be an argument going on.. and suddenly i heard GUNFIRE!!! i was witnessing a shootout!! this mexican guy with his buttons open.. running after some dude with his Shinny silver revolver, anyhow.. my friends dragged me away from the scene into a STRIP club! .. my first exprience in a strip club! it was.. not worth the hype!.. it was HORRIBLE infact,.. really not my cup of tea! Anyhow.. i hung around there for a while.. and almost fell asleep.. and i managed to convince two other people to leave with me for home.. and so Soon i was home safe! with a missing tooth.. but hey i could have been SHOT! :)

I know some people want my toothless picture! but i shall only let you have the joy of looking at it once i have it fixed! which will be by this weekend! and hopefully it will be fixed! Appareantly the doc lives far far away.. so we can only go on the weekend! Daniel parents being nice as always have decided to drive me to the dentist! Till then i'll have to maintain a serious look as i scale the corridors of ITESM.